Postgraduate research

Criminology

Causes of crime

Dr Tammy Ayres

  • Drugs, including drug use in prison
  • Trauma and coping
  • Terrorism and narcoterrorism

Dr Kofi Boakye

 

  • Development and exposure to crime and violence across context
  • Mental health, violence and suicide

Dr Matt Hopkins

  • Crime prevention
  • Commercial victimisation
  • Security
  • Organised crime
  • Hit-and-run driving
  • Acid attacks

Dr Jason Johnstone

  • Environmental Criminological Theory 

Dr Asmahan Msuya

  • Crime in the Global south 
  • Cultural criminology
  • Green criminology

Dr Sarah Pancholi

  • Offending Behaviour Interventions to prevent reoffending: general, violence, group-related, extremism-related, sexual offending. 
  • Prevention of violence and indiscipline in prisons, institutional behaviour management and situational crime prevention, creating a rehabilitative culture

Crime prevention

Dr Tammy Ayres 

  • Drugs, including drug use in prison
  • Trauma and coping
  • Terrorism and narcoterrorism

Dr Kofi Boakye

  • Policing and crime prevention
  • Criminal justice response to young people’s offending and victimisation
  • Prisons and rehabilitation of violent offenders

Dr Matt Hopkins 

  • Crime prevention
  • Commercial victimisation
  • Security
  • Organised crime
  • Hit-and-run driving
  • Acid attacks

Dr Jason Johnstone

  • Situational Crime Prevention. 
  • Crime Prevention through Environmental Design. 
  • Crime-script analysis. 

Dr Diane Levine

  • Child protection
  • Child safety online

Dr Sarah Pancholi

  • Nature of adolescence and offending behaviour in young adulthood
  • Trauma-informed approach to psychology of multiple adverse childhood experiences
  • Culturally informed assessment of causes of crime
  • Working with neurodiversity as a contributory factor to crime

Dr Matt Tonkin

  • Policing
  • Offender crime scene behaviour
  • Investigative psychology
  • Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
  • Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
  • Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness

Dr Jess Urwin

  • Youth justice
  • Social justice
  • Service provision
  • Professional decision making and identity
  • Popular criminology and youth culture

 

Forensic science and psychology in criminal justice

Dr Kofi Boakye

  • Policing and crime prevention
  • Police violence
  • Investigative psychology (particularly profiling of violent offenders, interviewing and witness testimony)
  • Violence against women and girls
  • Gender and racially motivated violence
  • Mental health, violence and suicide
  • Prisons and rehabilitation of violent offenders
  • Death penalty in Africa

Dr Cristina d'Aniello

  • The psychology of jurors/jury decision-making
  • Comparative study of jury systems worldwide
  • Miscarriages of justice
  • Forensic psychology
  • Eyewitness testimony
  • Deception detection in criminal justice contexts

Dr Lisa Smith

  • Jury/judicial decision making about forensic science
  • The role of forensic science in human rights investigations
  • Forensic science and miscarriages of justice
  • Human factors in forensic science

Dr Matt Tonkin

  • Policing
  • Offender crime scene behaviour
  • Investigative psychology
  • Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
  • Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
  • Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness

Gender, crime and violence

Dr Kofi Boakye

  • Violence against women and girls
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Child abuse and neglect

Dr Mark Connor

  • Gender and crime 1700-1900
  • Regulation of sexuality 1800-1900
  • Gender as performative deviance 1700-1900

Dr Calogero Giametto

  • Queer and Feminist Criminologies
  • Border and Migration Criminologies
  • LGBTQ+ experiences of the criminal justice system
  • Migration and Asylum 
  • History of gender and sexualities 
  • Criminalisation of Sex Work 
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity motivated hate crime 

Professor Nick Mai

  • Gender, Sexuality and Migration
  • Queer Criminology
  • Critical Smuggling and Trafficking Studies
  • Critical Humanitarian Studies
  • Migration and Asylum 
  • Migration, Sex Work and Trafficking 

Professor Teela Sanders

  • Crime and gender
  • Sex work
  • Informal economies
  • Regul

Dr Emma Sleath

  • Violence against women and girls
  • Sexual and domestic abuse
  • Survivors and lived experience
  • Image-based sexual abuse

Dr Matt Tonkin

  • Policing
  • Offender crime scene behaviour
  • Investigative psychology
  • Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
  • Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
  • Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness

Green criminology

Professor Nick Mai

  • Environmental crime and harm
  • Environmental distress and solastalgia
  • Overtourism and environmental harm and distress
  • Ecocide
  • Climate Change and Global Warming
  • Corporate Environmental Harm
  • Environmental Justice
  • Animal Rights and Welfare
  • Ecological and Species Justice
  • Policy and Regulation

Hate crime and social justice

Dr Chris Allen

  • Manifestations, experiences and encounters of Islamophobia
  • Anti-Muslim hate crime
  • Defining and conceptualising Islamophobia
  • Counter-extremism and counter-terror policies and strategies
  • Religiously motivated hate
  • Counter-jihadi groups and movements
  • Anti-Islam/anti-Muslim ideologies of the far-right
  • Socio-political manifestations of the 'problematisation' of Muslim communities

Dr Kofi Boakye

  • Gender and racially motivated violence
  • Police violence and minority experiences of the criminal justice system
  • Mental health, violence and suicide

Professor Neil Chakraborti

  • Hate crime victims
  • Hate crime perpetrators
  • Criminal justice responses to hate crime
  • Disablist hate
  • Homophobic and/or transphobic hate
  • Racially motivated hate
  • Religiously motivated hate
  • Any other issues relating to wider themes of prejudice, ‘difference’ and ‘othering’

Dr Calogero Giametto

  • Queer and Feminist Criminologies
  • Border and Migration Criminologies
  • LGBTQ+ experiences of the criminal justice system
  • Migration and Asylum 
  • History of gender and sexualities 
  • Criminalisation of Sex Work 
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity motivated hate crime 

Dr Piotr Godzisz

  • Hate crime (especially internationalisation and novel theoretical and methodological approaches to examining hate crime victimisation and policy responses)
  • Access to justice, victims' rights and minority rights
  • Links between hate speech, extremism, and disinformation.

Dr Diane Levine

  • Child and adolescent resilience to maltreatment and abuse
  • Child and adolescent safety in Africa 
  • Child and adolescent mental wellbeing and social equity

Professor Nick Mai

  • Border Criminology
  • Queer Criminology
  • Criminalisation, Stigmatisation and Marginalisation of Migrant Groups
  • Critical Humanitarian Studies
  • Hate Crime, Migration and Asylum
  • Hate Crime and Sex Work
  • Hate Crime, Sexuality and Gender

Dr Asmahan Msuya

  • Hate crime -Race and racialization of crime
  • Penal system responses to hate crime
  • Transnational Organised and corporate crime

Dr Sarah Pancholi

  • Interventions with group-related and extremism-related crime
  • Managing prison environments with multiple conflicting groups

Police and Policing

Dr Kofi Boakye

  • Policing and crime prevention
  • Police violence and minority experiences of the criminal justice system
  • Investigative psychology (particularly profiling of violent offenders, interviewing and witness testimony)

Dr Claire Davis

  • Police leadership and command
  • Critical incident management in the police
  • Recruitment, selection and promotion in the police
  • Police training, education and development
  • Police occupational culture
  • Diversity in the police

Dr Matt Hopkins

  • Crime prevention
  • Commercial victimisation
  • Security
  • Organised crime
  • Roads policing/hit-and-run driving
  • Acid attacks

Dr Jason Johnstone

  • Policing cybercrime. 

Dr Matt Tonkin

  • Policing
  • Offender crime scene behaviour
  • Investigative psychology
  • Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
  • Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
  • Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness

Probation, prisons and offender rehabilitation

Dr Tammy Ayres

  • Drugs, including drug use in prison
  • Trauma and coping
  • Terrorism and narcoterrorism 

Dr Kofi Boakye

  • Prisons and rehabilitation of violent offenders
  • Criminal justice response to young people’s offending and victimisation
  • Death penalty in Africa

Dr Gina Fox

  • Penology
  • Desistance
  • Rehabilitation
  • Offender Management 

Dr Asmahan Msuya

  • Penology
  • Re-entry and re-integration
  • Crimmigration

Dr Sarah Pancholi

  • Prisons
  • Prisoners
  • Rehabilitation
  • Interventions
  • Suicide prevention
  • Violence reduction
  • Anti-bullying
  • Trauma-informed approaches
  • Culturally informed practice
  • Client groups (personality disorder, young adults and adolescent offending, group/gang-related offending, extremism-related offending)
  • Expert witness, particularly parole hearings

Dr Matt Tonkin

  • Policing
  • Offender crime scene behaviour
  • Investigative psychology
  • Police decision-making and crime analysis (particularly offender profiling, behavioural investigative advice, geographical profiling and crime linkage)
  • Prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals
  • Offender rehabilitation and treatment readiness

Security and terrorism

Dr Chris Allen

  • Manifestations, experiences and encounters of Islamophobia
  • Anti-Muslim hate crime
  • Defining and conceptualising Islamophobia
  • Counter-extremism and counter-terror policies and strategies
  • Religiously motivated hate
  • Counter-jihadi groups and movements
  • Anti-Islam/ anti-Muslim ideologies of the far-right
  • Socio-political manifestations of the 'problematisation' of Muslim communities

Dr Tammy Ayres

  • Drugs, including drug use in prison
  • Trauma and coping
  • Terrorism and Narcoterrorism

Dr Cristina d'Aniello

  • Italian mafias and lay perceptions of organised crime

Dr Matt Hopkins

  • Crime prevention
  • Commercial victimisation
  • Security
  • Organised crime
  • Roads policing/ hit-and-run driving
  • Acid attacks

Dr Jason Johnstone

  • Counterterrorism and antiterrorism. 

Dr Asmahan Msuya

  • Islamophobia and Criminality
  • Faith, religions and crime
  • Religiously motivated hate

Victimisation and Victimology

Dr Calogero Giametto

  • Queer and Feminist Criminologies
  • Border and Migration Criminologies
  • LGBTQ+ experiences of the criminal justice system
  • Migration and Asylum 
  • History of gender and sexualities 
  • Criminalisation of Sex Work 
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity motivated hate crime 

Dr Matt Hopkins

  • Crime prevention
  • Commercial victimisation
  • Security
  • Organised crime
  • Roads policing/ hit-and-run driving
  • Acid attacks

Professor Nick Mai

  • Gender, Sexuality and Migration
  • Queer Criminology
  • Critical Smuggling and Trafficking Studies
  • Critical Humanitarian Studies
  • Migration and Asylum 
  • Migration, Sex Work and Trafficking 

Dr Sarah Pancholi

  • Working with marginalised groups, culturally sensitive practice
  • Working with people who harm themselves (suicide and self-harm prevention) and dual harm

Professor Teela Sanders

  • Crime and gender
  • Regulation and the sex industry
  • Gender/crime policy & practice
  • Women in the CJS
  • Acid/weapon crime
  • Participatory Methods
  • Modern Slavery

Dr Emma Sleath

  • Sexual and domestic abuse
  • Criminal justice responses to survivors/victims
  • Survivors and lived experience
  • Violence against women and girls
  • Screening and responses to domestic abuse
  • Recovery journeys of survivors of sexual and domestic abuse
  • Image-based sexual abuse

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